Delivering energy to nanoscale: Rapid adiabatic transformation, concentration, and stopping of radiation in nanooptics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5512, Issue , 2004, Pages 38-49

  Stockman, Mark I ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Concentration of energy; Eikonal; Enhanced local fields; Metal semiconductor graded systems; Nanosystems; Rapid adiabatic transformation; Tapered plasmonic waveguides; Wentzel Kramers Brilouin (WKB) approximation

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; RADIATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

CONCENTRATION OF ENERGY; EIKONAL; ENHANCED LOCAL FIELDS; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR GRADED SYSTEMS; NANOSYSTEMS; RAPID ADIABATIC TRANSFORMATION; TAPERED PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; WENTZEL-KRAMERS-BRILOUIN (WKB) APPROXIMATION;

OPTICS;

EID: 13244294114     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.562685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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